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Super Raw - the FPSJosh ego experience

09-20-2011, 12:17 PM

AMEN!! I SAY AMEN!! PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE BACON!! PRAISE THE LORD!!

(jokes aside)

Hello, my name is Josh and I live in New Britain, CT, and I just recently started the primal diet. It all started when I watched the documentary Fat Head. That started most of my journey. I'm married and have a beautiful daughter about 9 months old.

Just like everyone here, lots of people would say that I'm a food evangelist, preaching the Bacon Gospel. I hardly consider myself a food evangelist, mostly because this is the only diet that seems to work for me anyway.

I also have asperger's syndrome and am very proud to represent fellow grokers who suffer from this terrible disease. (I wonder what the connection is between autism and mothers with low fat diets.)

Anywho, my sympotoms prior to starting were:

Obesity

High blood pressure

Sleep Apnea

Poor Sleep (wont go away cause I have a baby)

Depression

Most of them have gone away since then, the exception of which is obesity and poor sleep. I however don't care so much about obesity than I do about apnea. Hopefully I can get off of my cpap.

Feel free to comment/post/ask questions/make me think. I love learning about food and health, and I'm always willing to change my mind (with the exception being about bacon.)

Starting a journal is a good way of staying accountable. Congrats for that and for getting rid of high blood pressure and depression! I've always heard that when you lose weight you don't snore as much. I'm hoping that's true for my sake and my future wife's sake.

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Starting a journal is a good way of staying accountable. Congrats for that and for getting rid of high blood pressure and depression! I've always heard that when you lose weight you don't snore as much. I'm hoping that's true for my sake and my future wife's sake.

You know, dropping caffeine helped with the depression too. I used to need those SSRIs, but going outside helped me get my seratonin back to normal levels too.

I love how doing what I think should be healthy, IS healthy. Always hated corn/beans when I was younger haha.

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Hello, and why is "raw" in your title? Do you eat a lot of raw food? (I eat high raw paleo.)

Actually yes. I eat whole foods (mostly because my cardiologist said to eat raw.) That's how I ended up here. And no, I dislike the store whole foods. The only thing I get there is their grassfed beef, and that's if I happen to be in the neighborhood. I like Trader Joes better.

I have an update on my mother, who is on "Weight Watchers" (which I lovingly call "Fat Haters") is eating your typical low fat diet with skim milk and cereal and sugar every morning. My dad is no better. He lost a lot of weight in muscle on your typical low fat diet.

My mother says I shouldn't do anything I'm doing.

God it's so damned difficult to talk logically to people who drank the low fat cool-aid.

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I’ve heard chia seeds mentioned in the forums, and I thought it would be worth it to take a quick gander. Before Chia Pets got popular, chia seeds were eaten throughout Mesoamerica for thousands of years. The Aztec and Mayan civilizations were big fans of the seed, even using chia seeds as tributes to the ruling classes. Chia is actually a bit like flax in a few ways. For one, chia is high in Omega 3 fatty acids – ALA in particular. But just like I do with flax, I think the potential benefits of ALA in the diet are vastly overblown. The “purpose” of ALA consumption is to convert it into DHA/EPA, but humans simply don’t have the hardware to make the conversion worthwhile. Most of it just gets wasted. That’s not to say chia isn’t a viable food option; if it tastes good and falls within the PB, I say go for it. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re taking care of all your Omega 3 fatty acid requirements with a few tablespoons of chia seeds each day.

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Fish in butter and margarine (I know, it wasn't as tasty as it could have been either) , Butternut squash, squash, zucchini, bacon strips and LOADS of butter marinated on the fish. Yeah, it was awesome.

Also, on wikipedia, what you say to people who say that low carb "diets" don't help you get the glucose you need for the brain:

Gluconeogenesis begins in the mitochondria with the formation of oxaloacetate through carboxylation of pyruvate. This reaction also requires one molecule of ATP, and is catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase. This enzyme is stimulated by high levels of acetyl-CoA (produced in β-oxidation in the liver) and inhibited by high levels of ADP.

Oxaloacetate is reduced to malate using NADH, a step required for transport out of the mitochondria.

Malate is oxidized to oxaloacetate using NAD+ in the cytoplasm, where the remaining steps of gluconeogenesis occur.

Oxaloacetate is decarboxylated and phosphorylated to produce phosphoenolpyruvate by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. One molecule of GTP is hydrolyzed to GDP during this reaction.

The next steps in the reaction are the same as reversed glycolysis. However, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase converts fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to fructose 6-phosphate, requiring one water molecule and releasing one phosphate. This is also the rate-limiting step of gluconeogenesis.

Glucose-6-phosphate is formed from fructose 6-phosphate by phosphoglucoisomerase. Glucose-6-phosphate can be used in other metabolic pathways or dephosphorylated to free glucose. Whereas free glucose can easily diffuse in and out of the cell, the phosphorylated form (glucose-6-phosphate) is locked in the cell, a mechanism by which intracellular glucose levels are controlled by cells.

The final reaction of gluconeogenesis, the formation of glucose, occurs in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum, where glucose-6-phosphate is hydrolyzed by glucose-6-phosphatase to produce glucose. Glucose is shuttled into the cytosol by glucose transporters located in the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Not sure if there was fat in there, but that's how your body gets the whole glucose thing for your brain.

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Been following primal until I hit a snag yesterday. My wife wanted mcdonalds, and I had to have my bacon. Ordered a bacon egg and cheese bagel and of course there were 2 slices of cheese and I ate the whole bagel out of hunger. For the rest of the day, I felt crappy and I crashed around 3PM. That never happens. Guess What I won't be doing again?

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Been crashing again, I'm trying to lose weight and come off of the crab thing. Time to put my money where my mouth is and restart my liver. Unfortunately I don't have any money at the moment to get my fat intake so I'l stuck on nuts for a while.

Will hit as many veggies and good fats as I can for now. In the mean time, I might have to sit and eat some stored pasta while I pay for my daughter's diapers.